Emergency hub for automobile wheels



Mar. 27, 1923. 1,450,062.

- O. H. COOPER. EMERGENCY HUB FOR AUTOMOBILE WHEELS.

FILED SEPT. 14. 1921. E

Patented Mar. 27, 1923-. 1,450,062

UNITED STATES-PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO H. COOPER, OF SHAMROCK, LOUISIANA.

EMERGENCY HUB FOR AUTOMOBILE WHEELS.

Application filed September 14, 1921. Serial No. 500,620.

.ToaZZ whomz'tmag concern: ture of a wheel spoke. The band 4 may be Be it known that I, OTTO H. COOPER, a contracted or expanded and the jaws 6 citizen of the United States, residing at moved toward or away from each other, Shamrock, in the parish of Natchitoches through the medium of a single means,'such and State of Louisiana, have invented ceras a bolt or screw having its shank 8 loosely 55 tain new and useful Improvements in Emerpassing through an opening 9 in one arm 5 gency Hubs for Automobile Wheels; and I and having screw threads at 10, to engage do hereby declare the following to be a full, screw thread withi an op ning 11, i the clear, and exact description of the invention, other arm 5. A wrench engaging head 12,

1 such as will enable others skilled in the art for instance hexagonal as shown, may be 60 to which it appertains to make and use the provided on the bolt shank 8. To facilitate same. an understanding of the invention, a rear This invention relates to an emergency or axle 13 is shown to which a wheel 14 is fixed repair hub for automobile wheels. by means including a hub plate 15. This 15 Hubs, partieularlythose of the rear wheels con tructio i the equivalent of that used 66 of automobiles frequently break, and as the to secure the r ar wheel to the axle of a accident often occurs when a new hub is not 1921 model, Ford automobile. It is the immediately accessible, the present invention hub or plate 15 which is referred to in this aims to provide a simple and practical subapplication as breaking in some instances.

stitute or repair hub which may be used in When the flange 15 of such plate 15 breaks 70 place of the injured one to enable further from thesleeve 15 the adjacent wheel is use of the wheel at least until a service staloosely journalled and will not be positively tion can be reached or a new hub obtained. drawn. The usual hub cap is then prefer- Specific structural objects and advantages ably removed from sleeve 15 to save it and will appear as the description thereof here to permit band 14 to be more easily placed 75 inafter progresses, and is considered in conaround the sleeve 15 while a spoke of the nection with accompanying drawings illus wheel is received between the jaws 6. The trating one practical embodiment. bolt 12 may then be tightened, which will In said drawings 2- bind the band 4 tightly to the sleeve 15 and Figure 1 is a view illustrating a wheel, will clamp the jaws 6 to the spoke. Thus 80 hub and axle, with my emergency hub used the band and jaws are fastened rigidly by a in connection therewith, and with the parts single fastening means.

principally shown in section to expose de- In order that the degree of engagement tails. between the band 4 and sleeve 15 may be Figure 2 is a side elevation of the emerincreased, the inner surface of said band 4 85 gency hub; may be roughened as by milling or serrating Figure 3 is a perspective View of said hub. 18 at Throughout the different views, like refer- Changes within the spirit and scope as deence characters designate like or similar lined by appended claims, may be made. parts. What is claimed is 90 Referring specifically to the drawings, the 1. A device of the class described comprishub may be made essentially from a bar of ing a bar having an attaching band portion relatively stiif, thick,.slightly resilient metal of loop shape, coacting jaws at a distance which is bent intermediate its ends to form from the band portion, and fastening means an axle or spindle embracing loop or band intermediate said portion and said jaws 0p- 9 4. Distance arms, preferably parallel with erable to simultaneously apply pressure to each other, extend at 5 from the terminals said band portion and said jaws. of the band 4, and at 6, arms 5 are deflected 2. A device of the class described having laterally to provide attaching jaws, dished fastening band of loop shape, coacting or arcuateas at 7 to conform to the curvaaWs at a distance therefrom and ofl'set, and 1 0 fastening means intermediate the jaws and ing means mounted in the distancing portions band operable to simultaneously apply intermediate the jaws and band. v10 pressure to said band portion and said jaws. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature 3. A device of the class described consistin presence of two witnesses.

5 ing of a bar having an attaching portion in- OTTO H. COOPER.

termediate its ends, lateral offset jaws at the Witnesses: terminals ofthe bar, distancing portions in- CHARLES E. BYLEs,

termediate the jaws and band, and a fastenv C. M. HARRISON. 

